Downloadables @ Alpha Park Library

ADML Overdrive eBooks & eAudiobooks

The Alliance Digital Media Library (ADML) is a collection of downloadable eBooks and audio books for patrons to borrow. The system is powered by a company called Overdrive. Alpha Park patrons may sign in using their library card number and the same password they use for the card catalog. If you’ve never signed in before, the default password is “CHANGEME.” Once logged in, you can browse the titles of eBooks and audio books for downloading. You are allowed five downloads at a time and can choose to keep them for 7, 14, or 21 days. If a title is unavailable, you may put it on “hold” and you’ll be notified by email. You'll have two days to check out your eBook. The Libby app is the easiest way to get started with digital books and audiobooks from your public library. Libby is available for Android, iOS (iPhone/iPad/iPod touch), and Windows 10

eRead Illinois Axis 360 eBooks & eAudiobooks

Alpha Park Library is participating in the eRead Illinois Program, designed to increase access to e-books across Illinois. Axis 360 is a digital media platform, providing libraries and their patrons with a state-of-the-art system for circulating digital e-books from the eRead Illinois shared collection for Illinois libraries. Patrons at libraries participating in eRead Illinois will be able to access cloud-based delivery across a number of devices including iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows, NOOK® and Sony ReaderTM devices, and many more. If you have a library card from a participating library (like ours), you can download eRead Illinois electronic books to your tablet, computer, or other device. At this time selection is limited to e-books, watch for audiobooks in the future.

BiblioBoard Library

The BiblioBoard platform features a collection from Recovering the Classics (which features public-domain classics from world literature, with modern cover images), as well as collections from the Bodleian Library and the BiblioBoard Core. There is no limit on simultaneous use; items in the collection can be read by 1 or 100 patrons at the same time. This means no hold queues and no waiting for titles. BiblioBoard Library Instructions